An update on this story. Islamic Tolerance Alert: "Man Halts Action against Compulsory Arabic Names following Threats," from NIS News, with thanks to Fjordman:HAARLEM - A Moroccan man who was opposing the Moroccan state intervention with the names given to children born in the Netherlands has halted his campaign. The many threats he received were too much for him, newspaper De Volkskrant reported yesterday.In registering a newly-born baby, Moroccan parents have a list stuck under their nose by Dutch municipalities out of which they have to choose a name. This official list distributed by the Moroccan government contains only Arabic names. This is discriminatory and violates freedom of choice, according to Moussa Aynan. Dutch municipalities are thereby an outpost of the Moroccan government, De Volkskrant quoted him as saying.The 34 year old Aynan, who has just become a father himself, is a Labour (PvdA) council member in Haarlem. Hundreds of angry and threatening reactions have reportedly come in on his website in the past weeks from the Netherlands and abroad. So many that he has now decided to remove his weblog from the air. "It became too much, my wife particularly became afraid," said Aynan in the newspaper.Posted by Robert dhimmiwatch

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Russian United Nations Ambassador Vitaly Churkin rejected as “wild speculations” the nonsensical article by the Croat Vlado Vurusic published in Croatian daily Jutarnji List and blindly republished by the Reuters, Washington Times and Scotsman, among others, which claimed that Russian Federation has agreed to allow the adoption of Western resolution in the UN Security Council enabling severing of Serbian Kosovo-Metohija province, for close-to-nothing.“These reports are false,” said Churkin to the reporters in the UN New York headquarters referring to the tall tale Croats invented. “Things are exactly where they were yesterday or the day before yesterday... As far as those fundamental differences (between Russia and the West) are concerned, they have not changed at all,” said Ambassador Churkin, adding that the positions of Moscow and the authors’ of the resolution draft —U.S., Germany, Britain and France — will be brought closer when those who have put together the resolution proposal agree with the Russian stand. All the while, the Russian position regarding southern Serbian province has remained unchanged, emphasized Churkin according to the Itar-tass report.According to RIA Novosti, Churkin also stressed that Russia is not interested in making concessions over Kosovo-Metohija, reminding that Moscow supports the continuation of real negotiations and creating conditions for decent, safe and secure environment for Serbs and other non-Albanians in the Serbian province.“We are concerned with the objectivity and standards, keeping the classical approach. We have pointed it all out, everything is as before and there are no breakthroughs,” said Vitaly Churkin.More:http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2007/05/hallucinations-threats.html

If anyone still doubts that mainstream media is largely just a well oiled propaganda machine spewing lies, disinformation and loads of crap most of the time, here comes the latest proof in the shape of a rather ludicrous article by someone named Vlado Vurusic published in yesterday’s Croat daily that was readily accepted by British Reuters and Washington Times among others, and republished almost word-for-word without a single shred of evidence or an independent confirmation by any of distinguished news editors or reporters employed by their respective Agitprop Agencies.It did not bother them in the least that some Croat Vurusic appeared to be the only man on Earth in possession of information that would certainly be a front page headline fit for any respectable news agency; they did not think it suspicious that this Best Informed Man on Earth (sadly employed only by the Croatian Jutarnji List), instead of citing one reliable, verifiable source claims his “information” comes from “semi-official sources” that are also “close to the Russian leadership” (?!); they didn’t stop to ponder the ridiculous claims this Croat came up with — no siree Bob! — they grabbed it with both hands and ran with it, shaking in their boots of sheer excitement and pleasure the Croat Lump of Coal produced, because it looked so shiny, whispering the sweet nothings in their ears, that the Serbs have been left out to hang by the Russians after all.Supposedly respectable supposedly newspaper Jutarnji List’s supposedly journalist Vlado Vurusic wrote that Russians have suddenly agreed to let the US-French/German/British resolution pass in the UN Security Council, i.e. they have decided to allow the amputation of Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija in exchange for the following trifles: to have Russian troops stationed in Serbian ghettos in southern province (?), to stipulate that newly independent Kosovo State will not be allowed to join the United Nations for two years (the preposterous idea was already suggested two weeks ago by the Albanian Brussels-stationed lobbying group ICG, only to be instantly rejected by Russia) AND to have Ukraine and Georgia not accepted to NATO in June (?!).Now, one can understand if Croat Vlado Vurusic is either stupid or so ill-informed he actually thinks that “Russian conditions” he conjured out of thin air would seem plausible, and it is easy to understand if Jutarnji List is run by stupid or ignorant editors who thought Vurusic’s figment of imagination seems fine, but it is really hard to understand Reuters, Washington Times and B92 editors would be THAT stupid, careless and uninformed about Russian position regarding Serbia and its southern province, to actually translate Vurusic’s steaming pile of cow dung and proudly exhibit it for their readers.If they were not blinded by wishful thinking, perhaps they would have realized that, at this point, it would take WAY more for Russia to even consider betraying its firmly held principled, well-argued and highly ethical position, reiterated few thousand times thus far, certainly much more than being allowed to send few of their soldiers to Kosovo-Metohija, more than merely postponing independent Serbian province’s entry into the UN for two measly years and way more than delaying Ukraine’s and Georgia’s NATO membership for what? another month or two? The whole thing reads like idiot’s guide to political idiocy, but apparently Reuters, Washington Times, Scotsman and the rest thought it swell.More:http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2007/05/croat-virus-spreads.html

Monday, May 28, 2007

Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute Ted Galen Carpenter assessed that Serbia’s Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica is absolutely correct regarding the international law and history in relation to the issue of status of Kosovo-Metohija province.Speaking for Washington radio station Voice of America, Carpenter noted that acceptance of the plan drafted by Martti Ahtisaari in the UN Security Council would have at least two alarming consequences: creation of a dangerous precedent with further impact on the region and Europe in general and, secondly, the imposed breaking up of a sovereign and democratic state would also serve as a precedent that, in the long run, could be a source of problems for the European Union and United States.http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2007/05/timely-warnings.html

Saturday, May 26, 2007

Montenegrin Patriotic Movement for Kosovo-Metohija said in a statement on Thursday that the first volunteer squad for Kosovo defense, which will be based in one of the coastal towns, had been set up at the patriotic assembly in the city of Ulcinj.The Movement rallies the refugees from Kosovo province and all people in Montenegro who have some connections with Serbia’s southern province and want it to remain within Serbia, the organization said.After its May 23 assembly in Ulcinj, the movement said it “did not set up a paramilitary unit or an armed group, but a patriotic squad of volunteers who would join Serbian patriots in case of a need to defend the southern province.”More:http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2007/05/kosovo-volunteers.html

Friday, May 25, 2007

NewsMax article “U.S. Selling Out Bosnian Christians to Muslims, Serb Leader Says,” by Kenneth R. TimmermanThe man who helped overthrow Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic says the State Department is pressuring him to hand over Christian Bosnia to its powerful Muslim neighbor, threatening the delicate balance that ended the Bosnian War.The Bosnian Serbian entity was created under the 1995 Dayton peace accords.“At the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo, I was threatened that if I did not agree to these U.S. demands, I would have problems,” Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Milorad Dodik told NewsMax in an exclusive interview.In a meeting on Wednesday at the State Department, Dodik said that Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried didn’t repeat the threats, but insisted that Dodik and the Christian Bosnian Serb government agree to dissolve its independent police force and parliament, and merge them into Muslim-majority federal institutions.“The United States is trying to assimilate us into Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), which is a Muslim entity,” Dodik said. Today, Dodik will be meeting with Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, who is expected to reinforce these demands. Dodik told NewsMax, “I will refuse.”Asked why he was coming to Washington if to be read the riot act, Dodik said it was “hard to refuse when you’ve been summoned.”More:http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2007/05/us-selling-out.html

In a statement to the FoNet news agency, Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica warned that Serbian government would “immediately annul any document according to which another state might be created on the territory of Serbia.” Kostunica reiterated the well-known Serbian position that, for the Serbian government, as well as all other state institutions, Kosovo-Metohija will remain an integral and unalienable part of Serbia.“Every Serbian citizen in the province must be fully aware that unilateral independence simply does not exist and means nothing to Serbia,” said the Prime Minister.He recalled that so far there have been several such attempts by ethnic Albanian separatists which have no meaning for the state of Serbia.“Even if we assume, for example, that just yesterday Albanian separatists declared unilateral independence, our answer is that each of our citizens in Kosovo-Metohija must absolutely reject and ignore such illegal and invalid acts and know that the province is an integral and unalienable part of Serbia and that they are Serbian citizens with full rights,” stressed Kostunica, adding that their government, their parliament and their state institutions, according to the Serbian Constitution, are situated in Belgrade.He explained that this obliges state institutions to provide them with employment, health care, education and all other facilities.“The Ministry for Kosovo-Metohija was formed due to the Serbian government’s heightened concern for the province,” said Kostunica. He further said that the Ministry, in cooperation with all other ministries, will make major and constant efforts so that investment and employment are increased in Kosovo-Metohija and the standard of living is made much better than at present.More:http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2007/05/brick-wall3.html

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Meanwhile, equally rabidly anti-Serbian German Foreign Ministry announced Kosovo-Metohija will be one of the main topics of the G-8 summit of the foreign ministers, to be held in Potsdam, close to Berlin, on May 30. According to the German media this meeting, to be attended by the foreign ministers of Russia, France, Britain, Italy, USA, Canada, Japan and Germany, should “clarify certain topics” that will be in the focus of the G-8 heads of state and government scheduled to meet a week later in the German north Sea resort of Heiligendamm.German state agency DPA is certain that these meetings will “give an impulse to the resolution of the Kosovo issue,” and are confident in their assessment that “for Washington, as well as for the German EU Presidency, the course for the Kosovo issue is clear — there is no alternative to Ahtisaari’s plan.”More:http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2007/05/brick-wall.html

By William F. JasperAfter six foreign-born Muslim men were arrested on May 7 for plotting a suicide attack on the U.S. Army base at Fort Dix, New Jersey, White House spokesman Tony Snow told reporters "there is no direct evidence of a foreign terrorist tie" to the group.Although government officials have continued to maintain this line, the American Council for Kosovo asserts there is ample reason to surmise that the planned terror attempt is blowback from the U.S. support for the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and its bid for control of an independent Kosovo carved from the former Yugoslavia. Four of the six men indicted are ethnic Albanians from the Kosovo region.More: Kosovo BlowbackJohn Birch Society

Monday, May 21, 2007

PRISTINA, Serbia-Police in Kosovo raided a casino and an insurance company Friday and arrested three Turkish nationals suspected of fraud, a spokesman said.Officers of police financial crime units also searched the homes of the firms' owners as part of the investigation into alleged tax evasion and money laundering, police spokesman Veton Elshani said.The alleged fraud cost Kosovo around €2 million (US$2.7 million) in lost revenues, Elshani said.The force also shut down the casino, located in Pristina.Kosovo has been under U.N. administration since mid-1999, following a war between Serb forces and independence-seeking ethnic Albanians. The province is one of the poorest regions in Europe.serbianna.com

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Celebrating 10 year anniversary of their mass war crime “Storm” (“Oluja”), Croat Premier Sanader said: “Storm is the symbol of Croat decisiveness. Storm is the key event which secured Croatia’s future.” President Stipe Mesic, behind the speaker, also praised the crime.Galbraith: Croat Army and Leadership Responsible for AtrocitiesNobody can deny atrocities were committed after the “Operation Storm” — ethnic cleansing of more than 300,000 Serbs in Croatia in 1995 — which included the crime of taking steps to prevent the return of Serbian refugees, said former American ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbraith, stressing that not some paramilitary troops, but regular Croat army was responsible for the atrocities and that Croat leadership was behind the crimes.As a guest of the Croatian TV show “Sunday at 2,” Galbraith said that during and after “Storm” Croat forces were pillaging, torching and killing, that it was clear Croat army had full control of the carnage and that everyone who wished to join the massacre could do so with the approval of Croat army and police.More:http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2007/05/croat-leaders-ordered-carnage.html

Serbia Will Enter EU Only With Kosovo As Its Integral PartSerbia will never give up its sovereignty over its southern Kosovo-Metohija province to gain membership in the European Union, Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said Saturday.“The government is fully united and categorical in its stand that Serbia will never agree to usurpation of Kosovo-Metohija province for the sake of integration in European structures,” said Serbian Premier in an interview with the Tanjug news agency, adding that “the government’s priority is to take care of Serbia’s interests.”Kostunica pointed out there have been “no examples in the history of Europe that one state cedes 15 percent of its territory for any kind of concessions or prizes.”“If something like that was useful, good and possible, I believe someone would have already thought of that,” said Kostunica, who was reelected Prime Minister on Tuesday.Kostunica asserted that the government will take the necessary measures for completing cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in order to resume the negotiations with the European Union, but ruled out any territorial concessions.More:http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2007/05/eu-with-kosovo-only.html

Russia-EU Summit Ends Without a Breakthrough for Colonial MastersSummit in Samara where, after the U.S. State Department, it was the EU heads’ turn to try and bend Russia’s arm forcing the awakened giant back into submission, has ended without success. Without ever considering the only acceptable option—treating Russia as an equal partner—colonial masters kept poking and prodding in an attempt to find the piece of dirt big enough to beat Russia over the head with it and make it kneel again.Poland buys unsanitary meat for peanuts in the third world countries and wants to make killing profits by selling it to 150 millions Russians; Russia clues in and bans meat imports from Poland, EU throws a fit over Russia’s “intransigence” — why wouldn’t they feed their children the rotten meat, why create problems?! Estonia goes back to celebrating fascists and starts dismantling statues of liberators, their third-rate citizens—Russian minority—protest, get savagely beaten by the Estonian police which even kills one demonstrator, the EU blames Russia. Serbia struggles to preserve its borders, EU keeps pushing to dismember Serbia, Russia opposes reverting to the law of the jungle — Russia gets accused of creating problems. And on, and on, and on, it’s a Blame it On Putin Year (since you can’t buy him, bribe him and get him drunk).More:http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2007/05/separatists-encouraged.html

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

MILAN, Italy (AP) - Three armed men hijacked a regional bus Tuesday in northern Italy and set it on fire after freeing the passengers, officials said. An off-duty police officer was injured and two of the three hijackers were apprehended.The bus was traveling south from Alessandria to Acqui Terme, cities southwest of Milan, when the men - armed with a pistol and knives - took it over and forced the driver to turn off the highway and onto a state road heading in the opposite direction, a carabinieri official in nearby Novara said.An off-duty police officer who was on board tried to intervene and was stabbed, but was not in serious condition, the official said.The hijackers allowed the passengers to get off when the bus reached Alessandria again, but then forced the driver to keep going before the bus came to a stop near Trecate, on the outskirts of Novara farther to the north, Sky TG24 reported.There was an exchange of fire and the gunmen set the bus on fire before fleeing, officials said. Two of the gunmen, both Albanian, were apprehended and authorities were seeking the third, the Novara carabinieri official said.Another carabinieri official, who declined to give his name, said one of the gunman who was apprehended was being treated for an unspecified injury.Fire crews and investigators picked through the burned-out skeleton of the bus as it continued to smolder. Sky TG24 said the men had doused the vehicle with gasoline they had brought with them before torching it.AP/serbianna.com

Severing Kosovo from Serbia Not An OptionAs Rice’s attempts to make Russia give up on Serbia’s Kosovo province and let her State Department (she took the biggest Serbophobe, Daniel Fried, with her), along with Brussels, keep on doing whatever they like in Serbia have miserably failed, and as German Foreign Minister received the same message regarding Kosovo province in Moscow, Serbia has formed a new government.Reelected Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica confirmed in the national Parliament that democratic parties which have formed the government have reached “a full agreement over five crucial principles of the government policy,” of which Serbia’s position on the Kosovo-Metohija province remains firm and unchanged.More:http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2007/05/kosovo-always-serbia.html

...at Gathering of Extreme Nationalists in Bleiburg, AustriaWiesenthal Center Los Angeles Jerusalem - The Simon Wiesenthal Center today protested the utter failure this past Sunday of the Austrian authorities to prevent or stop the widespread use of Croatian fascist Ustasha symbols at a gathering of Croatian nationalist extremists held in Bleiburg, Austria. In a statement issued in Jerusalem and transmitted orally to the Deputy Chief of Mission of the Austrian Embassy in Israel, the Center's chief Nazi-hunter, Israel director, Dr. Efraim Zuroff called for a full investigation of the events at Bleiburg and for steps to be taken to prevent their recurrence.According to Zuroff:"The fascist demonstrators at Bleiburg made a mockery of Austria's ban on the use of Nazi symbols and its law against Holocaust denial by showing up in Ustasha uniforms and waving photographs of Ustasha leader Ante Pavelic, the person most responsible for the genocide carried out by the Croatian state (NDH) against Serbs, Jews and Gypsies during World War II. "Is it any wonder that Austria continues to give haven to Croatian war criminal Milivoj Ashner, who lives in nearby Klagenfurt? If nationalist extremists can parade in Ustasha uniforms in 2007, today's Austria is obviously sympathetic to Ashner, whose extradition to stand trial in Croatia for his crimes as Pozega police chief has been blocked by Austria for over a year and a half."picture: pictures of Ustasha Leader Ante Pavelic and Symbols of the nazi-like Organisation were freely presentedin Bleiburg, Austria."die jüdische"

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

For having the effrontery to elect the "crusader and Zionist" Sarkozy instead of the dhimmi Royal. From AFP, with thanks to James:DUBAI, May 15, 2007 (AFP) - An Al-Qaeda front group in Europe threatened on Tuesday to launch bloody attacks in France in response to the election of "crusader and Zionist" Nicolas Sarkozy as president."As you have chosen the crusader and Zionist Sarkozy as a leader ... we in the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades warn you that the coming days will see a bloody jihadist campaign ... in the capital of Sarkozy," the group's "Europe division" said in an Internet statement addressed to the French people.The campaign will be "against all those who allow themselves to follow the policy" of the US administration, said the statement whose authenticity could not verified.Posted by Robertjihadwatch

Monday, May 14, 2007

If Memory Served and the Earwax was Removed...According to Western press, Russian Federation on Saturday issued its “strongest warning to date” that it “might veto” the draft resolution giving Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija a form of independence, that was tabled by the US, UK, France and Germany.If Western mainstream media didn’t suffer from one-week memory span of a toddler, and if majority of Western leaders were not deaf and dumb, they would be able to recalldozens of equallystrongwarningsissued by Russia, including the one by President Putin himself few months ago, when he reminded his Western colleagues veto is generally “not meant to collect dust,” but to be used in the instances where it is considered the only remaining means to prevent a catastrophic decision, such as dismembering a UN member state by a bureaucratic dictate, as suggested in the case of Serbia.More:http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2007/05/mission-to-moscow.html

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Debar, Terrorist KLA/UCK Stronghold in FYR of MacedoniaSo three of the Fort Dix Six are from Debar? Good. Let’s examine how this piece of information helps us better understand the three Albanian terrorists plotting to massacre U.S. soldiers in collusion with their KLA/UCK sniper-brother from Serbian Kosovo province (Abdullahu).In an article published by Balkanalysis.com two years ago, Carl Savich wrote:Debar, known also as Bebar, Dibre-i-Bala and Dibra, is a small town located in central-western Macedonia, near the border with Albania proper. Debar was a key area of conflict during World War II and saw the deployment of the [Albanian Muslim] Skanderbeg SS Division.[...] Today, Debar has remained a volatile region of Albanian separatism and a base for Greater Albania ultra-nationalism. The KLA had bases around Debar in the late 1990s during the terrorist/separatist war in Kosovo-Metohija. The town’s proximity to the wild Albanian border has also made it a key place for cross-border arms smuggling since the early 1990s. [emphasis added]More:http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2007/05/debar-kla.html

Albanian Terror and the Fort Dix SixThe Conservative Voice, NC, May 12, 2007One does not need a stretch of the imagination to draw the line. Law enforcement agencies in this country and in Europe have known for decades about the Albanian contributions to international terrorism. And sometimes, the good guys used the bad guys to promote shared political agendas, as happened in Serbia and Kosovo.More...balkanpeace.org

Excerpt from Julia Gorin’s articleThe three Kosovo-Albanian Duka brothers implicated in the plot to massacre American soldiers at Fort Dix were in the roofing business, and they lived in New Jersey, which is next-door to New York. New York is where the big dog in Albanian roofing lives. His name is Florin Krasniqi, and he was the subject of a 2005 documentary aired on PBS and titled “The Brooklyn Connection.” (Here’s the cast of colorful characters, and here are some clips on YouTube.)In addition to raising $30 million for the Kosovo jihad from the Albanian-American community, Krasniqi smuggled high-powered sniper rifles from the U.S. to the al-Qaeda-assisted Kosovo Liberation Army so that it could do more Serb-killing when the time comes, and so the KLA could fight NATO troops when that became necessary [...]More:http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2007/05/new-jersey-terror-plot.html

Clintonites and Blairites Fight for Kosovo Albanian Terrorists in the UN Security CouncilAs Clintons’ cherished allies Kosovo Albanian terrorists revert to their true nature of criminal, violent, abusive thugs after few excruciating years of sweating under the masks of benevolence and victimhood, plotting to attack U.S. Army bases, both in Kosovo-Metohija and in States, Clintonian State Department — still in power under the Bush administration — doubles its efforts to grant the terrorists’ wish and amputate Kosovo province from Serbia.Taking over the UN Security Council presidency during the month of May, fanatical Washington bureaucrats have launched a blitzkrieg for securing planned dismemberment of Serbian state during their reign. Along with equally fanatical Blairites, Clintonites have written a proposal for the new UN SC resolution and thrown it into the lap of France, to be formally submitted by an EU member state.Russia, which is together with China, South Africa and Slovakia, among other UN SC member states, opposed to tearing Serbia apart in order to form a second Albanian Muslim state on Serbian territory, has submitted its own draft resolution, strongly backed by Belgrade.

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

“Oh Allah, vanquish the Jews and their supporters…vanquish the Americans and their supporters…and kill them all, down to the very last one….” -Sheik Ahmad BahrA few weeks ago at a mosque in Sudan, a top Hamas official delivered a sermon where he called for the annihilation of Jews and Americans.Sheik Bahr, the acting Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, preached, "...America and Israel will be annihilated…", then urged the faithful to, "...Go, and fight the Jews," and called upon Allah to, "...kill them all, down to the very last one" (translated quotes and screen captures provided courtesy of MEMRI). These words are in direct violation of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and its Convention on Genocide.Rather than using his trip to Sudan to stop the genocide in Darfur and ending the suffering of his fellow Muslims, Sheik Bahr used the pulpit for incitement to genocide against the Jewish people and Americans. This is the latest proof of why the international community must continue to withhold aid and legitimacy from the Hamas-led government.Please click here to join the Simon Wiesenthal Center in a petition urging Angela Merkel , in her dual capacity as German Chancellor and current European Union President, to demand that the EU and the UN take action against Hamas and its genocidal agenda.The EU must not reward these terrorists by sanctioning expanded international recognition and direct aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.The central lesson from the Nazi Holocaust is that evil must always be confronted, not silently shirked or sanctioned.Join us by signing our petition to help stop this genocidal incitement today!

Fort Dix Army base, target of a terror plot by four Kosovo Albanians, a Jordanian and a Turk. Over 4,000 Kosovo Albanians from Serbian province were sheltered here during 1999 U.S.-led NATO bombardment of Serbia.Kosovo Albanians in States: Kill As Many U.S. Servicemen As PossibleWidely publicized reports about the arrest of six men accused of plotting a terrorist attack on the U.S. Army base in New Jersey stubbornly refuse to reveal that four of the six jihadi terrorists are Kosovo Albanians. Instead, they are described as “Yugoslavs” (?!) or Albanians. But the fact is that four of the arrested terrorists are Kosovo Albanians, one of whom was even a member of the terrorist KLA/UCK and sheltered in the Fort Dix Army base as a poor Kosovo Albanian refugee during NATO bombardment of Serbia. The other two are Jordanian and Turkish.Six men described as “locally organized group of radical islamists,” were planning to attack Fort Dix in New Jersey with the goal to “kill as many U.S. servicemen as possible.”American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informed the media the members of the jihadi terrorist group are: Dritan Duka, 28; Shain Duka, 26; and Eljvir Duka, 23 — ethnic Albanian brothers from Serbian Kosovo-Metohija province and Agron Abdullahu, 24, also Kosovo Albanian, Mohamad Shnewer, 22, from Jordan, and Serdar Tatar, 23, from Turkey.

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Six Men Plotted to Attack Fort DixThe 3 brothers were roofers. Weapons smuggler Krasniqi employed roofers. Krasniqi is close to Holbrooke, Clark. They raised over $500,000 on one fundraiser for Kerry, on picture.More...serbianna.com

The FBI made six arrests today, saying the men planned to attack the Fort Dix Army base and "kill as many soldiers as possible." Those arrested:• Agron Abdullahu, a Yugoslavian native (Albanian) who was living legally in Williamstown, N.J.• Dritan, Shain and Eljvir Duka, three Albanian brothers from former Yugoslavia (Kosovo) who came to the country illegally and were living in Cherry Hill, N.J.• Serdar Tatar, a Turkish-born, legal U.S. resident who was arrested in the 2100 block of Tremont Street in Philadelphia.• Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, a U.S. citizen from Jordan living in Pennsauken who worked as a cab driver. He was taken into custody while in his cab at the Philadelphia International Airport.balkanpeace.org

German police is searching for two Kosovo Albanians wanted for a cold-blooded murder of a Greek restaurant owner in broad daylight on Saturday, near Nuremberg, reports Munich daily Merkur in its online edition.The assailants have raced after and intercepted the Greek man’s car on a very busy street in a small town of Lauf near Nuremberg, forcing him to stop. One of two men came out of the car, approached the restaurateur’s vehicle and shot multiple times through the glass. Thirty-six year old Greek man from the Lauf suburbs bled to death in plain view of the shocked bystanders, writes the daily noting that the suspects are ethnic Albanian brothers from Kosovo-Metohija, age 29 and 32.The criminals managed to escape, but the witnesses wrote down their license plate number which, according to the report, belongs to two Kosovo Albanians living in Nuremberg. Merkur cites that German police suspects the killers are attempting to run to Serbian Kosovo province via Italy after the crime.http://www.byzantinesacredart.com/blog/

Monday, May 07, 2007

Harriman Institute: Wishful Thinking is Not a StrategyIn its current edition, National Interest features analysis by Gordon N. Bardos, assistant director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, warning that current U.S. Kosovo-Metohija policy of enforcing its will regardless of the dangers and possible consequences is, without a shred of a doubt, wrong.Referring to the announcements by the U.S. State Department bureaucrats, Albanian lobbying ‘think-tanks’ such as ICG and U.S. lawmakers financed by the Albanian mafia that United States will recognize independence of southern Serbian province with or without the UN Security Council resolution — allegedly, in order to prevent “further bloodshed” impatient Kosovo Albanian separatists would cause — Bardos points out that such a reckless move “could just as easily whet the appetites of militants who have already engaged in violence in Macedonia, Montenegro and southern Serbia.”“In Serbia’s Sandzak [Raska] region, adjoining both Bosnia and Kosovo, the recent discovery of an Islamic militant training camp full of weapons and Al-Qaeda propaganda materials shows that Wahhabists are making inroads in the Balkans’ economically underdeveloped regions. In Kosovo itself, ethnic minorities continue to suffer under the worst human rights situation in Europe, unemployment and official corruption are at extremely high levels even by regional standards, and there is a strong possibility that a precipitate move towards independence could provoke Kosovo’s Serbs north of the Ibar River to declare independence themselves, creating yet another frozen conflict in Europe. [...] It is in this regional context that American policymakers claim that quickly granting Kosovo independence without UN Security Council approval will stabilize the region, yet just the opposite could prove true,” says Bardos.More:http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2007/05/kosovo-wishful-thinking.html

Sunday, May 06, 2007

Lethal Plan Presentation Coming to Your TownAfter smothering leaders of African states with his plan, after squeezing the last breath out of European states’ officials, after garroting the NATO and EU leaders with his proposal, after force-feeding the UN Security Council Ambassadors his draft again, at the end of their Kosovo-Metohija fact finding mission, and after suffocating some UK politicians while breathing down the Contact Group’s neck in London this week, former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari will next week visit Stockholm and Berlin, and then depart for New York and the UN, his spokesman Remy Dourlot told Tanjug in Vienna on Friday.Ahtisaari will on Monday be in Stockholm, barging in on a session of the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), which will be devoted to Kosovo-Metohija province. On Tuesday, the Finn will take his plan to Berlin, to force it upon the political director and other representatives of the German Foreign Ministry.As of Wednesday, the Finnish Strangler will stay one week in New York, where he will suck the life out of a number of unnamed diplomats at the UN headquarters. According to Dourlot, during the Snuffer’s stay in New York no UN Security Council sessions are planned, Martti will just buzz around in search for new victims.The citizens of Stockholm, Berlin and New York are advised by the Interpol to make sure their doors and windows are safely locked and to stay indoors while the Finn is in their town. As an additional precaution, the residents are advised not to bring up the topic of southern Serbian province at any time while the Finn With the Plan is nearby, in order to avoid drawing the unwanted attention, risking to join dozens of victims of the Lethal Plan Presentation. Better safe than sorry, warned a high ranking Interpol official who wished to remain anonymous.Posted by Svetlanahttp://www.byzantinesacredart.com/blog/

Saturday, May 05, 2007

How the political landscape of Europe is already transformed: "France's Royal warns of violence if Sarkozy wins," by Kerstin Gehmlich for Reuters, with thanks to Maya:PARIS (Reuters) - Socialist opponent Segolene Royal said on Friday that France risks violence and brutality if her opponent right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy wins Sunday's presidential election.On the last day of official campaigning, opinion polls showed Sarkozy enjoyed a commanding lead over Royal, who accused the former interior minister of lying and polarizing France."Choosing Nicolas Sarkozy would be a dangerous choice," Royal told RTL radio."It is my responsibility today to alert people to the risk of (his) candidature with regards to the violence and brutality that would be unleashed in the country (if he won)," she said.Pressed on whether there would be actual violence, Royal said: "I think so, I think so," referring specifically to France's volatile suburbs hit by widespread rioting in 2005.Posted by Robert jihadwatch

Friday, May 04, 2007

Masked armed Albanian terrorists announce formation of another branch of terrorist KLA seeking to seize Greek Epirus just like they did with Serbian Kosovo-Metohija.Update: Albanian Terrorists’ Videos Removed From One Site, Only to Crop Up on Hundreds of OthersFollowing the publication of the news about video footage showing a group of masked armed Albanians who are announcing the formation of a paramilitary terrorist unit seeking to carve up Greek region of Epirus the same way that has been done with Serbian Kosovo province, the Albanian web site Dervina.com where two videos were shown has taken the material off the internet.Apart from a number of vulgar, insulting and threatening messages, Byzantine Blog has also received information about the news being spread like a wildfire through the internet community, including Albanian forums.While Albanians appear unanimous in the belief that Greek Epirus belongs to them, rather than to Greeks, and that it has to be seized one way or another, some of them expressed concern that the appearance of these video recordings at this point in time might hurt their prospects of successfully completing the first stage of the process: seizing Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija.These individuals are now working very hard to remove the videos from the web and cover up the tracks that prove, in word and picture, the existence of the plan to rebuild fascist Greater Albania, that included integral parts of Serbia (Kosovo-Metohija and Presevo valley), Greece (Epirus, or “Chameria”), as well as parts of Macedonia and Montenegro.But silencing the World Wide Web is not such an easy task: both Video 1 and Video 2 are now available on thousands of web sites, hosted throughout the world. So, update your links if you haven’t done so already and if the videos get taken off these two addresses, a quick Google search on “Ushtria Clirimtare e Camerise video” will unearth hundreds of other places where they can be viewed.Posted by Svetlana http://www.byzantinesacredart.com/blog/

Thursday, May 03, 2007

By Ioannis MichaletosAn independence proclamation by Kosovo will constitute a Carte Blanche for any minority nation in the world to proceed accordingly, thus erupting conflicts across the globe.More...serbianna

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

In its 2006 report on world terrorism, U.S. State Department gives a brief but damning insight into the grim situation of Albanian Muslim-dominated Kosovo-Metohija province. According to the report published on the State Dept. web site, Albanian terrorists in southern Serbian province who act both separately and in groups continue to operate with impunity, causing violence and attacking even the buildings of the provisional government and the UN.Different non-governmental organizations operating in the province are suspected of financing Islamic terrorist and Albanian extremist groups, while the anti-terror efforts by the UN police are thwarted by the poorly guarded, “porous boundary lines easily crossed by individuals trafficking in people or goods.”Compounding the problem is the fact that in the province ruled by mafia and crime gangs where the officials, including border and customs officers, as well as the entire barely-there “judicial system” is “often easily corrupted” and prone to intimidation, “the threats to witnesses during investigation and trial impede the real investigations into terror acts” and “intimidation of witnesses during investigation and trial phases hampered ongoing terror prosecutions.”According to this report there were some 15 terrorist attacks — the report does not include the ethnically motivated violence that is a daily occurrence in Kosovo-Metohija — in the southern Serbian province during the last year alone, carried out by the use of “hand grenades, missiles, explosive devices and firearms.” For the province smaller than Connecticut, or lesser in size than the third of Belgium, in a year when most other states in the world suffered not a single terrorist attack, that seems a bit steep.More:http://byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2007/05/reality-wrestling.html

By Aleksandar PavicFor more than 10 years, the term "Srebrenica" has been used to denote the slaughter of "innocent Muslims" at the hands of Christians – more specifically, the Bosnian Serb army, alleged to have slaughtered, according to the version currently accepted by most major media, "between 7,000 and 8,000 Muslims" when it captured that small town in eastern Bosnia in mid-July 1995. As the story goes, the Bosnian Serbs captured this "U.N.-protected zone" and proceeded to take away and execute thousands of men, women and children in the space of several days, subsequently burying them in mass graves that are still being dug up almost 12 years later.Belgrade-based historian and researcher, Milivoje Ivanisevic, who has been documenting Yugoslavian civil war casualties for more than a decade, has recently challenged the claims in a new booklet, "The Srebrenica Identity Card," which documents hundreds of bodies buried at the Srebrenica Memorial that were not killed in July 1995, when the alleged genocide took place, including cases of people who died natural deaths a full 13 years before the event took place.More...

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Al-Hurra is a useful tool, all right, but not for the U.S. "Mad TV: U.S. taxpayers subsidize terrorist propaganda and Holocaust denial in the Arab world," by Joel Mowbray in Opinion Journal, with thanks to Gnosis: Testifying under oath recently, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice misled Congress in her strong defense of Al-Hurra, the taxpayer financed Arab TV network. It was unwitting, though. She herself was misled.During the March 21 House Foreign Operations Appropriations subcommittee hearing, Rep. Mark Kirk (R., Ill.) pressed Ms. Rice on the wisdom of providing a platform to Islamic terrorists, citing Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah's Dec. 7 speech, which Al-Hurra aired live. The broadcast speech "went on for 30 minutes," she responded, "followed by commentary, much of which was critical of Nasrallah."In fact, Mr. Nasrallah's speech was carried in its entirety, roughly an hour and eight minutes. The commentary that followed--a 13-minute phone interview with Wael Abou Faour, a member of Lebanon's governing coalition--was indeed critical of Mr. Nasrallah. He accused the Hezbollah leader of not being anti-U.S. and anti-Israel enough. While Mr. Nasrallah had claimed Lebanon's governing coalition was aligned with the U.S. and had backed Israel during the war last summer, Mr. Abou Faour said that Hezbollah was actually closer to the U.S and added that any Lebanese faction that assisted "the Israeli enemy" should not be allowed to engage in political discussion because "the only place they should be [is] in prison."The secretary of state's testimony was without doubt delivered in good faith. But the same cannot be said of the information about the broadcast Al-Hurra provided to the State Department.Read it all.Posted by Robert dhimmiwatch

South Africa: Kosovo Reality and UNMIK’s Reports Two Different ThingsAfter the return of the UN Security Council fact-finding mission from Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija, during Monday briefing of the media representatives outside the Security Council chamber at the UN Headquarters in New York, Permanent Representative of the Republic of South Africa, Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo asserted that the reality in southern Serbian province is very different from the one presented by the UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo) reports, which project more than positive picture of the situation in the region.Real situation is very different from what was shown on the paper, said South Africa’s Ambassador, adding that the next step in the process will be the consultations of Security Council Ambassadors with their governments, based on reports each member is expected to submit.Ambassador Kumalo spoke against pressure to speed up the process of reaching the solution, exerted by the United States and some EU member states, stressing that the stands of both parties in the conflict have to be taken into consideration.Russia: UN Security Council Resolution 1244 UnfulfilledFollowing the return of their Permanent Representative to the United Nations from Kosovo-Metohija fact-finding mission, Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, Russian Foreign Ministry concluded Sunday that the fulfillment of the currently legally binding UN Resolution 1244 on southern Serbian province is unsatisfactory.“The mission has found many blind spots and confirmed the conclusion that despite relative progress in the social and administrative sphere, the situation with the fulfillment of the key provisions of Resolution No. 1244 and international standards in Kosovo cannot be recognized as satisfactory,” the Ministry said in a statement.Posted by Svetlanahttp://www.byzantinesacredart.com/blog/

Serbia: Soros Was Never Asked For His Two CentsVice President of Serbia’s Democratic Party Aleksandar Popovic said Tuesday that Serbia never invited George Soros to get involved in redrawing Serbia’s borders or questioning the integrity of its territory.Reacting to the statement Soros gave to Czech radio, that Russia is “more dangerous” in its stance on Serbian Kosovo province, than regarding the issue of American missile shield, since its veto in Security Council could “divide the European Union,” Popovic said to Tanjug that Soros has no right to engage in Serbian politics, by advocating Serbia’s dismemberment and seizing 15 percent of its territory.Popovic pointed out that, while supposedly ‘educating’ Russia, suggesting that Russian Federation, a permanent UN Security Council member, should not be engaged in the Kosovo-Metohija province issue, and while claiming that Russia is “creating problems” through its support for the international laws regarding sovereignty and territorial integrity of Serbia, Soros is at the same time allowing himself full freedom to engage on the issue.“Perhaps Soros would prefer to singlehandedly take on the role of the UN Security Council, so he can draw and redraw the borders throughout the way he sees fit and the way it suits his financial interests,” said Popovic.Posted by Svetlanahttp://www.byzantinesacredart.com/blog/

Masked and armed Albanian terrorists threaten Greek region of Epirus, announcing the formation of a “Liberation Army of Chamuria.” Judging by the flags on the table, they are clearly aware who their allies are.Albanian Terrorists Announce Greece is NextAccording to an announcement on the Albanian-language website Dervina.com, a paramilitary formation named the Liberation Army of Chamuria (LAC) had appeared in the north Greek region of Epirus, along the border with Albania.Using the same recipe for hijacking the land employed in Serbian Kosovo-Metohija province, beginning with the albanization of the name of the region, Albanians refer to the Greek Epirus as the Chamuria or Tchamuria. Along the information that the Albanian terrorist unit covering this region has been formed, the web site also offers two videos previously shown on the Albanian television News 24.Before the video footage was shown, president of the Albanian municipality Himara in the Valona region of Albania, stated that Epirus in Greece, populated by the majority of ethnic Albanians, should be given autonomy.Video recordings from the Dervina web site show eight masked and armed men, with UCC (Ushtria Clirimtare e Camerise in Albanian, or Liberation Army of Chamuria) acronym on their uniforms. One of them reads the statement about the formation of the UCC/LAC sitting at the table decorated with the USA and EU flags. On the walls behind, an Albanian flag and map of “Tchamuria” are hanged. (Video 1, Video 2)According to the Serbian news agency Tanjug, media in Athens has called on the Greek government to sharply condemn the threats issued by Albanian terrorists and to request the information from Yahoo which hosts the web site about the location of the site’s web master.Posted by Svetlana